Creating public space through urban analysis

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis

Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that additional employment is created over and above the level that would have prevailed in the absence ...

CREATING PUBLIC VALUE THROUGH ePARTICIPATION: WAVE PROJECT

The task of eParticipation is to empower people to be able through Information and Communication Technology to act in bottom-up decision making processes, thus allowing politicians to make informed decisions, while developing social and political responsibility. WAVE project deploys Debategraph (www.debategraph.org), an innovative argument visualization platform, in a multi-lingual, cross borde...

book review: convivial urban spaces: creating effective public places

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Creating Conversation Opportunities in Urban Spaces through Public Displays and Personal Devices

In this paper we present Team Battle Quiz, a game that runs on publicly accessible screens and is played through the users’ mobile phones. Our aim was to provide a game open for everyone that encourages participants to discuss and play together as a team. Our first user study demonstrated that the approach has the potential to elate the anonymous crowd to get in touch with each other. It furthe...